“We are as concerned today as we were a month ago,” Loy said. “The
whole notion of taking a deep breath and saying, ‘Wow, we got past this and
now we’re OK for a while,’ is a very dangerous train of thought.”

Loy said, “That threat stream of general concern remains, but there is
nothing out of the ordinary that we have read in the last weeks and months.”

Intelligence officials had unspecific information that the terrorists
wanted to disrupt the country’s democratic process up until the Nov. 2
presidential election.